BRITISH certain peculiar features which suggest that all these remains belong to one family-or to several families united by common-descent."' " Thus three of six crania possess large and uncommon Wormian bones."2 Professor Stuart Pigott says this about the bones from Lanhill Long Barrow (Wilts): " It was possible to show that the nine individuals were members of one particular family group, recognizable not only by the striking similarities in features, but also in the presence of the rare Wormian ossicles in seven of the nine skulls."' Anatomists and radiologists, on the other hand, have not been categorical about the alleged familial incidence of Wormian bones.
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